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NEW YORK — They have been one highlight reel after another. Stephen Curry has amassed YouTube clips as fast as he amassed votes for the 2015 NBA All-Star Game. And when Klay Thompson hit nine three-pointers on his way to a league-record 37-point third quarter in late January, the social media world nearly suffered a digital aneurysm. "I just smile when I watch that tape," Thompson said Friday during a media session in advance of the All-Star Game Sunday night at Madison Square Garden. Curry and Thompson are the Splash Brothers, knighted as such by Brian Witt of Warriors.com on Dec. 21, 2012, in an entirely clever twist on the old Bash Brothers Mark McGwire and Jose...

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NEW YORK — They have been one highlight reel after another. Stephen Curry has amassed YouTube clips as fast as he amassed votes for the 2015 NBA All-Star Game.
And when Klay Thompson hit nine three-pointers on his way to a league-record 37-point third...

Roy Williams, Mike Krzyzewski, John Thompson, Jerry Stackhouse and Brad Daugherty were among the friends, family and former players at a private service for North Carolina coaching legend Dean Smith, who died Saturday at 83. ... Jerry Tarkanian, who...

The NBA's best and brightest will gather at the Mecca of basketball this weekend. The All-Star Game and associated activities at the Barclays Center and Madison Square Garden create opportunities for NBA fans to take stock of the league.
Sorry, Celtics...

NEW YORK (AP) — Brook Lopez scored 22 points, Jarrett Jack made a clutch three-pointer with 13.8 seconds left and the Nets beat the Knicks 92-88 on Friday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
The Nets secured the city series by beating...

The Energizer Bunny's got nothing on Justin Timberlake. Thirteen months ago, JT launched his 20/20 Tour at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. and has since taken his act across the globe, from North America to Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New...

The Huskies continue to build formidable and unforgiving nonconference schedules for the future. On Monday, ESPN announced its participants for the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden December and UConn, which will play Maryland, is in the field.
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NEW YORK -- Dion Waiters admitted to sneaking a few peeks in the crowd to see Prince William and Duchess Kate Middleton.The looks that the reserve guard had at the basket were even more important for the surging Cleveland Cavaliers.Waiters...

Hip-hop sure has come miles. Emerging in the Bronx in the 1970s, rap music once consisted of mostly basic beats, rudimentary rhyme schemes, and simple boasts and stories. Since then, the style has infiltrated pop culture with seismic force — and not...

NEW YORK -- Deron Williams knows just how important it is for the Brooklyn Nets to defeat New York's other NBA team, the New York Knicks."The fans love this rivalry," said point guard Williams, who tossed in a game-high 29 points in...

UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- The New York Islanders aren't talking about their recent history. But they sure are re-writing it.Six different players scored goals for the Islanders, and goalie Jaroslav Halak notched his second straight shutout as New York...

After three straight exits in the Northeast Conference tournament quarterfinals, the Central Connecticut men's basketball team is one of the favorites in the NEC. The Blue Devils, who received three first-place votes, were picked to finish second to St....

ARLINGTON, Texas – Ryan Boatright fielded a number of questions about the NBA on Friday.He wasn't ready to announce a decision, but it sounds as though he is leaning toward coming back for his senior season at UConn."It's a lifetime dream to get to...

ARLINGTON, Texas — The horn sounded inside the oversized football stadium at 11:18 p.m. Eastern time and the underdogs embraced on the court, celebrating amid confetti and cheers.The most improbable ending to the most improbable season unfolded before...

NEW YORK – When Terrence Samuel heard "The Garden," his eyes lit up. He didn't look at the bracket, didn't realize everything that had happened when the Huskies advanced to the Sweet 16."I actually didn't know until after we won in...

LINCOLN, Neb. – For the past 20 years, women's college basketball coaches have understood the road to any significant national pinnacle eventually runs through UConn, which had already visited 14 Final Fours before Monday's Elite Eight game against...

UNCASVILLE — The long and always interesting rivalry between UConn and Rutgers in the Big East and American Athletic Conference will live on after this season as nonconference opponents.Senior women's athletic administrators from both programs said Sunday...

MEMPHIS — Shabazz Napier isn't coming to Memphis to pick up individual honors, he did not stay four years at UConn for that."I don't care," he said, laughing, when asked about the American Athletic Conference awards. "I'm not into...

NEW YORK – The talking is done, the workouts — 10 of them — are behind him. Now, Shabazz Napier will sit and wait for his name to be called.
"My body of work has proven a lot," Napier said Wednesday at a press conference in Times Square a day...